Quotes by Editors The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success. A. Scott Berg financialeditorssuccessful There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher. A. Scott Berg leap-of-faitheditorsbroken Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. Adlai E. Stevenson wheateditorsmen An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. Adlai Stevenson I libertarianeditorsliberty As Christians, we are to be newsboys and not editors of the gospel. Adrian Rogers editorschristian A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it. Adrienne Rich editorschancebook Refuse to be average. Aiden Wilson Tozer editorsaverageinspirational The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.' Al Gore troopssupporteditors I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot. Al Pacino editorswritingyears I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature. Al Yankovic madeditorsthinking But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the flame. Alan Rusbridger editorsflamesreal I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in the dark or in the cold or in the heat, maybe I would like to have a fresh drink or a piece of chocolate. Alber Elbaz editorsdarkthinking Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage. Alex Ebert editorsexpressionway Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a street photographer and a wanderer, without preconceptions. I try to leave it extremely intuitive and exploratory. Alex Webb editorstryingideas The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece. Alexander Chee idealseditorspieces Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts. Alexander Chee stageeditorsconversation I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. Alexander McQueen editorslyingthinking My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and you see a scene that's slowing you down in a certain section, but if you remove that scene then, emotionally or story-wise, another scene a half-hour later won't have the same impact. You just get stuck with it. Alexander Payne editorscuttingwise Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc. Alexander Theroux agentseditorsbook I don't think fashion week will go back to what it used to be because people are realising that the industry is completely changing. It's not just in Bryant Park any more, people are figuring out who their audience is, where they want to show, they aren't really playing by the rules. It's not so much about these editors, these buyers. Alexander Wang editorsfashionthinking1234567891011»
